Nissan Titan- Any Good?

[Wylie262]

thanks for everyones comments ive got a deal started on one now haha. very excited.

[Taminator]

Good luck on the deal Wylie...

I realize that this is not gonna be a deciding factor in most peeps truck purchase but anyways...

I'm on my third Nissan suv, I keep getting a new one cuz I like them so much. Hubby has always had GM...one thing we really notice between them over the years is how well the Nissans take abuse and stay tight. They need far less maintenance for little things and although parts/repairs are a bit higher, you never seem to need it! They just keep going and going...my first Pathfinder is still going strong with hundreds of thousands of kms, my second one is close to 300,000 now, my dad has it for a spare vehicle and it's been absolutely perfect nothing has been done to it since new -regular maintence no major repairs ever and it still doesn't have any rattles or shakes. He was never an import guy, GM all the way, but after owning this suv for 5 years he's thinking differently. He's never had a vehicle require less work and repairs especially one that has that many kms.

Mine sees some rough roads and I don't baby it, but it doesn't have a rattle, shimmy, shake...nothing! Hubby's truck is a few years newer and is top of the line GM...sweet truck, nice ride but the little rattles and rubs and crap drive me crazy! I'll spend hours trying to find the source of a tiny squeek or something...zero tolerance for annoying sounds (unless of course, it's me )

So besides all the important stuff like power, towing, gas mileage etc...I like a non-rattly, tight truck!!!

[ZRrrr]

Originally Posted by Taminator

Good luck on the deal Wylie...

I realize that this is not gonna be a deciding factor in most peeps truck purchase but anyways...

I'm on my third Nissan suv, I keep getting a new one cuz I like them so much. Hubby has always had GM...one thing we really notice between them over the years is how well the Nissans take abuse and stay tight. They need far less maintenance for little things and although parts/repairs are a bit higher, you never seem to need it! They just keep going and going...my first Pathfinder is still going strong with hundreds of thousands of kms, my second one is close to 300,000 now, my dad has it for a spare vehicle and it's been absolutely perfect nothing has been done to it since new -regular maintence no major repairs ever and it still doesn't have any rattles or shakes. He was never an import guy, GM all the way, but after owning this suv for 5 years he's thinking differently. He's never had a vehicle require less work and repairs especially one that has that many kms.

Mine sees some rough roads and I don't baby it, but it doesn't have a rattle, shimmy, shake...nothing! Hubby's truck is a few years newer and is top of the line GM...sweet truck, nice ride but the little rattles and rubs and crap drive me crazy! I'll spend hours trying to find the source of a tiny squeek or something...zero tolerance for annoying sounds (unless of course, it's me )

So besides all the important stuff like power, towing, gas mileage etc...I like a non-rattly, tight truck!!!

You bring up a good point that I never really tnhought about. My Titan too is tight as the day I bought it. No rattles, clicks, clunks at all.

[drop the hammer]

I work in oil and gas, and have run Chev's and fords my whole life until 2004. As usual in my industry i rack up serious KM's and some pretty miserable daily road conditions. Fords and chevs would be completely shot after 1.5 years and 120,000 km....nothing left...and that's usually after several ball joints and front end components too (normal maintenance items....or so I thought). I remember doing my brakes every 30,000 km's on the rear of my 2002 chev 3/4 tonne crew. Finally fed up with it all, in 2004 I tried a full sized Nissan Armada, I ran it for 4 years!! Still as tight as day one, NO REPAIRS, it had a brake recall in 2005, but haven't even changed brakes since!!! Thing is so awesome, gave it to wife now to haul the kids around. I bought a Titan this time as the SUV wasn't as good as a pickup for what i do. A 2008 Pro-4X, loaded, put on PRG| 2 inch mini lift and some decent tires, hasn't missed a beat, over 100,000Kms on the titan now and still NO issues, no even a ball joint. GM and ford has everyone believing we need to replace vehicles every 100,000km's...what a joke. I can verify that Nissan is awesome, the only downfall is they are only gas, no diesel YET. And only a half ton, but were supposed to have a 3/4 tonne out by now.

Also on my Armada I get 800 Km's on 100 liters (running tank right out) and I get about 725Km's per 100 liters on the Titan (it's geared a bit lower with the Pro-4X package). Not speeding at all though and driving quite gently, but i do run in 4x4 when needed. Also lots of mods for titans are on titantalk.com its like sled forums for titans...great stuff for summer modding in the sled off season. My old man is a Ford guy, he's got a new F150, pretty nice truck to me, very comfy in KingRanch, but he's at 30,000km's things are already going sideways for him, even his steering feels loose compared to my well used Nissan Armada.

[drford]

being a shop owner and fixing these thing IMO i would not buy for these reasons 2009 titan alternator took 3 months to get from nissan ,2005 to 2008 transmission issues replaced lots , 2007 had in last week NO PARTS TO OVERHAUL REAR DIFF complete assembly only at 5500 for diff from dealer drove by scrap metal bin at dealer 23 trans in garbage 5 engines and 19 differential assemblies HMMMMMMMMMM not for me i would freak like my customer when i told him i could not get anything to repair his rear diff but a complete assembly from dealer that is my 2 cents

[ZRrrr]

Interesting.....

I have spent considerable time on the Titan forums and have not come across any concerns with engines or transmissions. Would like to know more.

One must also keep in mind that ANY vehicle which is not looked after will eventually give you grief.

[drford]

Originally Posted by ZRrrr

One must also keep in mind that ANY vehicle which is not looked after will eventually give you grief.

this is greatly agreed with the manufacturer comes up with a maintenance program for a reason it is usually in glove box as a manual with regular a severe service intervals if these are followed by the dealer or your favourite aftermarket shop vehicles do last MUCH longer maintenance is key some people think it is over kill but the manufacturer has proven that their service intervals will give you the optimum life out of wearable components
two customers of mine are over 650,000 km on a 02 dodge and a 03 frod 6.0l diesel no and i mean no major work just regular maintenece ( no injectors in ford either still factory ones that came out in 03 i kepp trying to get him to change them but he wont i said that truck needs to go to a ford engineer some one screwed up on building it LOL )